Dear Friends,

I came across this site accidentally while surfing the web.All cudos to the people who created this site.After retirement I settled down in Bangalore. Similarly many of our collegues ,friends have settled down in different parts of this country.There was no platform to bring them together.This site can fuction as the much needed platform.Icall upon my retirsd friends to join this forum & share our post retirement experiance.Also we can discuss about the post retirement fecilities extended by Coal India.share our views on how to fully awail it& how to improve the same.We can also discuss as to how we can improve our quality of life at old age.Let us begin early and start sharing.Let us start discussing about the Post retirement Scheme.Is it beneficial in the present form or how it can be Improved.Pl start posting

कल दोपहर को एक भिखारी आया जिसे मैं ने दो रुपये दिये. उसने झुक कर ऐसा प्रणाम किया जैसे मैं ने सारी दुनियां उसकी झोली में डाल दी हो. भीख को अपना हक मानने के बदले उसे एक एहसान मानने वाले भिखारियों को मैं काफी उत्सुकता से देखा करता हूँ. कल भी ऐसा ही हुआ.

खिडकी से देखा तो वह तो फाटक के बाहर बैठ पैसा गिनता दिखा. पास जाकर देखा तो कम से कम सौ दोसौ रुपये का अनुमान बैठा. मैं चूँकि सिक्कों का शौकीन हूँ, और चूँकि लोग घर मे इधरउधर पडे पुराने सिक्के भिखारियों को दे देते हैं अत: उन सिक्कों की विविधता को सोच कर मैं ने पूछा कि सिक्कों के बदले नोट दे दूँ तो उस ने मना कर दिया.

कारण पूछा तो बोला कि (मेरे घर से लगभग 10 किलोमीटर दूर) एक होटल वाला उससे सारे खुले पैसे लेकर नोट दे देता है और हर 100 रुपये पर उसे एक खाना मुफ्त देता है. मुझे एकदम लगा कि दोनों ही लोग अकलमंद हैं. एक आदमी जिसके पास न आगे कुछ है न पीछे उसे 10 किलोमीटर चलने में कोई तकलीफ नहीं है. भिक्षाटन भी हो जाता है, 10 किलोमीटर की कवायद से शरीर को भी फायदा होता है. अंत में 21 रुपये का खाना मुफ्त मिल जाता है, कमाये पैसे उसकी अंटी में सुरक्षित रह जाते हैं.

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It is astonishing to know that some of CIL offices blocked this site. It is not  ethically correct, in this era of transparency though ipso facto purpose of this site is to supplement the knowledgebase of CIL , endeavour for making CIL a global giant.

However one should be ahead to even his own parents/teachers/bosses.

So try to unblock this site at offices, if you want - think ahead of others - and if u need any help, u r most welcome.

• Foreign Investment in the Mining Sector

During 1999, the Government had cleared 7 more proposals of leading international mining companies for prospecting and exploration in the mineral sector to the tune of US$ 62.5 million. 65 licenses have been issued till date for prospecting an area of around 90,142 sqkms in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. Prospecting licenses have been granted in favour of Indian subsidiaries of well-known mining companies. These include BHP Minerals, CRA Exploration supported by Rio Tinto (RTZ-CRA), Phelps Dodge of USA, Metmin Finance and Holding supported by Metdist Group of Companies UK, Meridien Minerals of Canada, RBW Mineral Industries supported by White Tiger Resources of Australia, etc.

• Large integrated international metal manufacturers including POSCO, Mittal Steel and Alcan have announced plans for expansion in India
• Mining companies and equipment suppliers are under the constant threat of being taken over by foreign companies.
• A heavy tax burden discourages further investment.
• Politicians undervalue the industry's contributions to the economy.
• Stricter environment rules restricting mining activities

Our present chairman has a vision. He is a positive person. Company is developing during his tenure due to his capabilities, vision.

Without Doubt.

BUT

When he was CMD at BCCL, he has to review EER of many BCCL senior officers.
He got no time or he did not feel essential to review the EER on time.

Till Oct 2008, there are approx 400 EERs are waiting to get reviewed for the period of PS Bhattarcharjee( as CMD, BCCL).
Mr A K PAL had joined and retired as CMD, BCCL - he also not reviewed those EERs on pretext of these are not of my period.

Poor officers are suffering.
On one hand CIL officers used to get promotion now and then by mercy of GOD and other hand these powerful officers have no time to even review their EERs.

Same case is with CMD WCL Mr D C Garg. On some points he is greater than our chairman. ( details will come in next items )

It is our NAVRATNA Company.

Recently chargesheated and retired BCCL - CMD Mr A K PAL used to slap his own officers on many occasions in office. Some time back as usual he slapped a survey officers of Lodna area of BCCL, when he was inspecting the colliery. Dhanbad media reported it on their newspapers and later on Mr PAL managed the show anyhow with the help of officer association and everyone else involved in the matter. CGM Bastacolla Area of BCCL Mr P K Chakrovarty followed the CMD’s footprint and left behind the CMD Mr PAL. Mr Chakrovarty had slapped six times to four different officers of his control in office premises. Officers complained/represented the CMD( Mr PAL). No action have been taken till date. Who will take action? CMD Mr PAL????

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कराची पुलिस ने एक युवक का अपहरण करने और उसके साथ बलात्कार करने के आरोप में तीन अज्ञात महिलाओं के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया है। इन महिलाओं पर आरोप है कि इन्होंने इस युवक के साथ चार दिनों तक बलात्कार किया और जब उसकी हालत बिगड़ने लगी तो उसे कय्यूमाबाद नदी के पास फेंक दिया। पीड़ित युवक की उम्र 23 वर्ष है और उसका नाम खलील मोहम्मद है।

पाकिस्तान के डेली टाइम्स की खबर है कि खलील, कराची के क्लिफटन (नीलम कॉलोनी) इलाके के एक छोटे से रेस्टोरेंट में वेटर का काम करता है। वह कुछ दिनों पहले ही रहिमयार खान शहर से कराची आया था। खलील ने बताया कि 27 जनवरी की रात को एक व्यक्ति ने रेस्टोरेंट में आकर कहा कि बाहर कार में बैठीं महिलाओं को खाना देकर आओ। ऑर्डर देने के बाद वह व्यक्ति कार की तरफ चला गया। खाना देने के लिए जैसे ही खलील कार की तरफ गया, कार में बैठीं महिलाएं ने कहा कि वह इस इलाके में नई हैं और उन्हें इलाके की जानकारी नहीं है। खलील के मुताबिक उनमें से दो महिलाएं लगभग 25 साल की थी, जबकि तीसरी 30 साल से ज्यादा उम्र की थी।

महिलाओं ने खलील से कहा कि वह उनके घर रोज खाना पहुंचा दिया करे और उनके साथ चलकर उनका घर देख ले। घर पहुंचने पर महिलाओं ने उसे पीने के लिए दूध जैसा द्रव दिया। जिसे पीने के बाद उसे नशा महसूस होने लगा। जैसे ही खलील को होश आया उसने देखा कि एक महिला उसके साथ अश्लील हरकतें कर रही थीं। महिलाओं ने चार दिन तक खलील के साथ दुराचार किया और उसके बाद उसे कय्यूमाबाद नदी के पास फेंक दिया। फिलहाल खलील की हालत काफी खराब है। उसके गुप्तांग से खून निकल रहा है और वह ठीक से चल भी नहीं पा रहा है।

रजा के मुताबिक महिलाएं कराची के पॉश इलाके क्लिफटन की हैं और अमीर परिवारों से ताल्लुक रखती हैं।

यह अविश्वसनीय नहीं.....
आज से करीब तीस वर्ष पहले इसी तरह की एक घटना राउरकेला (उड़ीसा) में घटी थी.लड़का तो इलाज के दौरान मर गया ,पर रसूखवाले पिताओं ने कुछ ही दिन लड़कियों को जेल में रहने दिया.मरे हुए लड़के पर ही रेप का केस चला और लड़कियों को कानून से साफ़ बचा लिया गया.

The Babri mosque in Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was demolished on December 6, 1991, by a mob of Hindu fanatics who believed that a temple to their god, Lord Ram, had been destroyed centuries ago to build the mosque. They wanted a temple rebuilt on the site. The demolition was followed by widespread sectarian violence in the country.

Pravah field trip Pravah high school students on a field trip

The traumatic events stimulated some soul-searching for Ashraf Patel and a group of her young friends, most of them members of the corporate sector in Delhi. "We discussed it constantly whenever we met," said Meenu Venkateshwaran, a member of the group. "We felt we had to do something about changing the mindset that bred such hatred . . . that allowed such things to happen."

The need for intervention was clear. The natural target, according to Patel, was young people who could be helped to acquire the ability to understand the emotions and point of view of others, and who were less prone to getting locked into the mindsets and stereotyping that is common to adults.

"Empathy is a core value that any human resources facilitator must harness," Patel said. Perhaps tragedies like the Babri violence would not happen again if children and youth could be shown that humility and respect for the other was not a sign of weakness; if the core value of empathy that exists in every person could be encouraged to come to the fore, flowering in a generation of young people many of whom would assume leadership positions later in life.

It was with these ideas in mind that the group founded Pravah in 1993 as an experiment with adolescents and youth in Delhi. Most of the founders of Pravah were management professionals, but they had worked in the social sector in some capacity or the other, driven by a need to connect with a larger India and contribute in some way to a better world. They saw the violence of this period as symptomatic of a wider malaise, and felt the need to do more than indulge in drawing room debates in order to counter the dangerous trends that seemed to be tearing apart their country's social fabric.

The Pravah team The Pravah team

Pravah in Hindi means "flow." Patel describes it as "a free flow of ideas and expressions among people to bring about change." The flow, she adds, also represents the journey of life of the individual from self to society.

Pravah's agenda was clear: inculcating the value of empathy in young people and helping them develop life skills that encouraged respect for others. "By life skills, we mean understanding oneself, values and attitudes; creative problem-solving; critical thinking; decision-making; and conflict resolution," Venkateshwaran said.

"There is a high process orientation in our programs - we are not providing kids with answers, as much as we are helping them understand a process by which they can find their own answers. Of course, an understanding of social issues, for example, environment, poverty, homelessness, diversity, and so on, is part of this."

The co-founders of Pravah drew on their expertise and experience in human resources management to draw up an interactive program for school children that aimed to "energize the spirit of empathy that exists in us all," Patel said.

The members believed that first they needed to help young persons break the walls around the construct of self. "We felt they had to be guided to breaking the gap between 'me' and 'the other'," Patel said. "They had to understand themselves - why they thought the way they thought, why they felt the way they felt - before they learned to place themselves in others' shoes - to understand the feelings and reactions of others."

Breaking Myths and Stereotypes

Pravah's "Me to We" program for children between the ages of 9 and 14 is a 40-hour module. In some schools it is completed in a couple of months, while in others it takes at least one year. The main objective is to help break myths, stereotypes, notions, and assumptions, and to help the children understand issues and make conscious choices.

In the first exercise, a group of 25-30 children discuss and debate issues to enable them to identify their values and understand themselves and their reaction to others. The issues are usually contextual, and most often the issue is the proposition that "violence is justified for the right cause."

The children are divided into groups of threes - those who support a proposition, those who oppose it, and those who are not sure. The "for" and "against" groups are then asked to try and persuade the "not sures" to their side. They must defend and oppose the proposition within their peer group, and are provided with literature and encouraged to do research that produces facts and figures supporting their argument.

The process gets the children thinking about their values, attitudes, and ideas. Often they begin with "this is clearly a waste of time," but subsequently get involved and stimulated. Once the excitement of the exercise is over, the arguments are processed within the peer groups and the children are asked to identify the values that have determined their choices. Often they find they have conflicting values, but had made a choice by ranking one value over another.

An effort is made to guide them toward developing a critical thinking process in which they make conscious choices. One of the themes that surfaced often during the initial years was community stereotypes, among them the notion held by some Hindu children that Muslims were not clean, Venkateshwaran said.

Often, the discussions would reveal that the stereotyping resulted from lack of awareness. Venkateshwaran recalls that a little girl, with a very rigid anti-Muslim stance, was totally taken aback at the end of the program when she was told that one of the Pravah organizers with whom she had been interacting was a Muslim. "She did not fit into the girl's notion of a Muslim," she said.

Benu Sharan, a student at Delhi University describes his experiences with Pravah:

"I didn't know anything at all about Pravah, but went along with friends to one of its meetings. I joined the program after that, and I feel it helped me in at least two ways - it gave me a 'real' experience of things that I knew about, but had taken for granted, and it gave me the confidence to air my thoughts aloud. I was so shy before I joined Pravah, now I feel I can always say what I think.

"I was a part of Pravah's media program, and we did a project on the homeless in Delhi. I know that so many people do not have a shelter over their heads, but the discussions and the stories my friends told me of their experiences during a night out on the streets of Delhi, which I was unable to attend, gave me an insight one cannot get by reading newspaper articles.

"They were real people, and the hardship they face in their daily lives was somehow nearer home. I know that I am more perceptive about the situation and feelings of others after my experience with Pravah. I hope my heightened awareness of how people are different and yet the same will help me when I complete my bachelor of education degree and start teaching children."

Children are paired in another exercise and asked to write down a few things they liked about another person. "As they read out each other's notes, we did not need to explain to them how good it feels to be appreciated," Venkateshwaran said.

In another exercise called "broken squares," children are given parts of puzzles which they must piece together, realizing in the process that the needs of others and their own are interdependent. "It teaches them team spirit, how to be solution-oriented yet creative, and that at the end of the day, the whole is a sum of the parts," Patel said.

The children adopt a project of their choice at the end of the 40-hour program. It can be anything from planting trees to cleaning up the neighborhood to teaching underprivileged children.

Energizing the Spirit of Empathy

Pravah also organizes "fun camps," a weeklong trip for urban school children to a rural area to give them exposure to village conditions and to encourage their appreciation of diversity through real-life experience. After an orientation workshop, they spend time with the villagers and sometimes do a socio-economic survey. At least one school in Delhi has made this program an essential part of its curriculum in Standard IX (ninth grade).

Spinning cotton Experiencing the rural way of life: city kids trying their hand at spinning cotton

Pravah's program is operating in about 30 schools in the Delhi region. About 50 to 60 percent of these schools are state-run institutions for lower-income groups. The rest are attended by middle- and higher-income groups. Pravah's staff of five persons is training teachers at the schools to be facilitators so that the schools can run the program independently.

The "Me to We" program is interactive, participant-driven and goal-oriented. Setting it in a contemporary context is crucial, Patel said. Students are encouraged to relate to and apply their experience to real-life situations by participating in social action, debates, discussions, theatre, plays, music, creative writing, simulation games, and behavioral exercises.

Pravah's Students Mobilization Initiative for Learning through Exposure (SMILE) program is aimed at developing empathy and inculcating a spirit of social service among college students through similar methods. The program, which Pravah has been running in Delhi since 1996, currently enrolls 60 to 100 student volunteers from universities in Delhi.

These students participate in workshops that prepare them for a four- to six-week project with a rural citizen sector organization. They also participate in theater workshops, media projects like preparing newsletters and short films and participate in team-building exercises and feedback camps.
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Recently, Pravah introduced the concept of a Youth Bank as part of the program where a group of five to six volunteers are given a sum of money and asked to identify how they would like to use it to help the underprivileged. In the Basti (slum) Youth Program, Pravah volunteers mobilize young people in the shantytowns of Delhi. Together, they hold talks and organize street theater on health, hygiene, and other issues. The interaction between the college students and the slum youth give both groups insights and understanding about the other.

The aim of all Pravah's programs is to "energize the spirit of empathy; to develop the ability to appreciate the feelings and perceptions of others," Patel said.

A Growing Sense of Urgency

Pravah's staff has constantly looked for ways to advance the program, and they have felt a need to increase their outreach and tap the expertise they have gained over a decade. "At some point, we felt the need to move from direct work to facilitating," Venkateshwaran said.

Pravah's most recent program, Making Changemakers, aims to equip educational professionals - including teachers, human resources managers, voluntary agency coordinators, and artists - with the skills they need to design and deliver citizenship education curricula to young people. "We are working on this with NGOs in Delhi and other cities, and other capability-building exercises," Patel said.

Pravah is also attempting to streamline and professionalize the structure and function of its organization, which has grown considerably. It has a new chief executive in Jaya Iyer, a theater artist, and the founding members are still deeply involved.

A decade after they launched Pravah, the needs that spurred its founders get stronger every year. One year after sectarian violence rocked Gujarat, leaving more than 3,000 dead, Patel's preface to Pravah's annual report noted that "the potentially dangerous trends seemed to push us towards altering the very values on which our social fabric is placed . . . our target group of young people faced a major dilemma - of making choices based on their values and looking towards a future that offers little more than uncertainties . . . . We at Pravah, more than ever, feel the need to harness our strengths and support our target group of youth."

April 21, 2008: Coal India Ltd has invited an expression of interest (EoI) from global mining majors for development of underground coal mines, operation and maintenance in seven blocks in the country.

The EoI was issued last week. The short-listed parties will have to undergo a detailed tendering process for the final award.

CIL will fund the development of the project and will enter into long-term coal purchase agreement with the selected parties covering the cost of production and maintenance of the assets.

Of the seven prospective mining assets, three are located in South Eastern Coalfields Ltd and one each in Bharat Coking Coal Ltd, Eastern Coalfields Ltd, Mahanadi Coalfields and Western Coalfields Ltd.

"We have sought EoIs from interested parties within 45 days, ending next month. Following this, we will shortlist the companies for participation in a detailed technical and financial tendering process," said a senior CIL official.

All the blocks are reportedly holding very deep coal assets and are considered to be difficult to mine using available underground technology with CIL. The company had already held pre-bid conferences in this regard and has reportedly received encouraging response, especially from Chinese companies.

Beneficiation capacity

Meanwhile, the Indian coal major has made substantial progress towards creating the coal beneficiation capacity through private-public participation. CIL is currently having limited coal washing capacity run on pre-world war technology.

"We have assessed the total beneficiation capacity requirement at 97.6 million tonnes. We have also identified sites for setting up washing capacities and the mine linkages. The linkages in turn will determine the technology to be used by the respective beneficiation plant," the official said.

"We are expecting all our subsidiaries to issue the first lot of tenders, inviting private parties" to set up washeries, and for their running and maintenance by end June, he added.